Air Race fans are nuts?

[flyingjibus]

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Though I haven't been invited into the SECTION 3 crowd, here's an idea:

For all those with the cool, custom bright orange SECTION 3 shirts, how about a custom 2012 shirt that is bright orange and says something along the lines of, "NCAR 2012, we're here and we're nuts!"

Sam

Sam,

No special invite is required. Just show up and enjoy the festivities.
Beginning along attractive gals does get you special treatment thou.

Indeed.

also all you need is a sharpie and your shirt can say whatever you want it to!

[V1670]

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Nuts since '72. The ONLY therapy for this nut is Dr. RARA's perscription of Merlins at full boost and Bear-roar.

[Coyote Chris]

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When I sent my observations and remarks to the NTSB, I basically said what Wayne did. The cold brutal truth is that sitting in the stands at Reno or attending any other air event is probably 100 to a 1000 times safer per minute than driving on a public highway. The nine days I am camped out at Reno is so safe that I feel I can safely say that no little girl texting on her cell phone has ever come close to running me over with her SUV in Section 3. The only close call I have ever had till 2011 after 50 years of attending air events is the girl who wanted to share my tent. (Note that I am not including Section 3 Margaretta Friday)

[AirDOGGe]

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Air race fans must be the most dedicated, hard-headed and devoted fanatics of any sport there are.


I can still remember fellow air-race friends telling me about events occurring years before I started going to the races in 1981. I believe it was in the late 1970s they told me when it practically snowed at Stead one year, and I still have a vivid mental picture of his description of him and his friends sitting on a frozen bench in a sparsely-populated GA grandstand, wrapped in mummy-type sleeping bags with just their faces exposed, patiently waiting for the races or an airshow event to proceed.

Now THAT"S dedication folks!

[Apteryx]

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I can still remember fellow air-race friends telling me about events occurring years before I started going to the races in 1981. I believe it was in the late 1970s they told me when it practically snowed at Stead one year, and I still have a vivid mental picture of his description of him and his friends sitting on a frozen bench in a sparsely-populated GA grandstand, wrapped in mummy-type sleeping bags with just their faces exposed, patiently waiting for the races or an airshow event to proceed.

Now THAT"S dedication folks!

[/QUOTE]

It WAS snowing, just not sticking to the ground, COOOOLD, windy, with a couple of hundred feet ceiling, and Hoover out entertaining those few of us that remained, popping in and out of the clouds.
I had on every piece of clothing that I brought, in a sleeping bag, and still freezing.....one of my favorite memories

[Frank C.]

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If anyone is interested one way or another, Mr. Buzbee's contact is:

info@txattorneys.com understand that statement.



No, in context, he wasn't calling all air race fans nuts. Instead, he was saying that his clients were nuts for wanting to see the races continue given what had happened to them.

But in that context, it shows that he will never understand the passion that involvement (in whatever your chosen poison is) in something like this can effect people. He'll never understand that for some, the emotional investment is worth the risk. Either he's never been passionate about something, or his passion for money outweighs passion for anything else.

Just more of my worthless .02 cents worth....which is up to about $1.28 by now.

Well said my friend. Only true Air Race Fans understand the why.

Frank C.

[Frank C.]

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I was so stupid, I posted the same thing twice. Oh well.


Frank C. Air Race Junkie, Airport Bum, etc.. and proud of it.

[Ron Lewark]

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Nuts, having missed only 2 races since 1974, guess I am. Our Reno trip is the highlight of every year. Love flying planes, houseboating Lake Powell, snowmobling, crawling the redrocks at Moab in our heep, and hauling the wife around all the Colorado back roads, looking at the wildflowers and mining history, wonderful. But there's something special about Reno, it's a step above the rest.

On another note, I told my wife for years that I wondered if a plane might get into the Box Seats, bleachers, pits or static display. I always thought if it happened it would come cartwheeling or sliding across the tarmac, much like the fiery debris field that went up the runway from the L-39 accident several years ago. I thought that if that happened, one might have time to make a move to save your butt. After watching GG, I don't believe one would have much time. We hadn't even hit the ground yet when a lot of small debris hit our group in A-83 and 84. We lost a good friend and flying buddy when Tommy Rose flying the Questar lost the tail in 2002. I believe every Questar that has raced at Reno has been invloved in an accident there.

See all you bunch of nuts in September. Ron

[Desertdawg]

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We're nuts?

Nawwwwww

[Reever]

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Air Race Fans Are Nuts?

I am totally devastated! Insulted! Beside myself! Beyond consolation!
I am.........................

Oh this reminds me, I have to clean out the litter box.

[Mystical Power]

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The lawyers coment is a "Perfect bottom feeder" briefcase begining to a settelment for 50% + court costs on spec. Greed. not an airrace sports fan, no soul, just sue and compromise for bucks. I brought my T-6/SNJ-5 to Reno in '98 thru '05. I was always in the "Gold" and I believe that Reno is the best run opp of all the venues I've been to. It is not OSK (run very well) but not an apples and oranges comprarison. All of life is a risk vs benifit. roll of the dice game. "No balls, no blue chips". Live it to the MAX. love all you do and can, do'nt wait. To refer to a quote in "The Flight of the Intruder" "Lets go downtown"...... Amen baby!.

Thomas Campau
USMC Vietnam 1966, 1967, 1968.
T-6 #21 first place at Reno and Tunica

[AAFO_WSagar]

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The lawyers coment is a "Perfect bottom feeder" briefcase begining to a settelment for 50% + court costs on spec. Greed. not an airrace sports fan, no soul, just sue and compromise for bucks. I brought my T-6/SNJ-5 to Reno in '98 thru '05. I was always in the "Gold" and I believe that Reno is the best run opp of all the venues I've been to. It is not OSK (run very well) but not an apples and oranges comprarison. All of life is a risk vs benifit. roll of the dice game. "No balls, no blue chips". Live it to the MAX. love all you do and can, do'nt wait. To refer to a quote in "The Flight of the Intruder" "Lets go downtown"...... Amen baby!.

Thomas Campau
USMC Vietnam 1966, 1967, 1968.
T-6 #21 first place at Reno and Tunica

Reno, Sir... is not the same without you!

[hm66sk]

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Checked in today, saw this, got a good chuckle. Some people just don't or can't get it. Same as some of the things others like that I don't understand. Like 24" wheels on classic cars......

I'll take my straight jacket in a size Medium-Tall and .. oh.. my left arm is just a liiitle bit longer than my right.

[Mystical Power]

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Thanks Wayne!

I would not be all me with out my Reno experince/participation. Huge challenges, great people, the greatest competive challenge event in existance. Earnest Hemingway said: that "there are only two real sports in the world, Mountan climbing and Motorsports all the rest are men playing childrens games"

Semper Fi;
Tom Campau

[John H]

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Truly, nuts could be described as driving a vehicle at speeds in excess of 60 MPH while other drivers operate vehicles going the opposite direction at equal or greater speed, all the while less than 10 feet away from each other, (in many cases, far less) on the same roadway.

Need I mention, there is nothing between you and the other vehicle than a stripe on the road and a little bit of air. There is nothing keeping you apart, beyond the mechanical reliability of the vehicle and the talent of the person operating it.

1000's of people die each year doing this very thing....

Would we ever consider outlawing undivided, bi directional highways?

The NTSB has, probably, in excess of a million miles of said, proven very dangerous roadways within the domain of its "advisory capacity".... Yet, I've never once heard anyone, inside or outside of the NTSB speak of closing these extremely dangerous roadways. They are what they are, we recognize them as what they are and continue to use them with little thought of what *could* hapen....

t....

Since 1946 over 30 , 000 killed every year on the highway. 2010 32,708. By the way, why do I wear a helmet while doing 50 in a kart but no helmet while doing 65 plus and once in awhile 80 in my Escort wagon? That's nuts!